NYPD Orders Precincts to Deny Journalists Access to Crime Reports
/The NYPD has ordered the city's 77 police precincts to stop giving out any information to the media about crimes taking place in their neighborhoods, cutting off a long-standing source of information for New Yorkers. According to a terse NYPD edict transmitted citywide, precinct commanders were instructed: "Any requests by media to view complaint reports be referred to the office of the Deputy Commissioner For Public Information." The move is the latest -- and perhaps not the last -- taken against the media by outgoing Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
